Onions are vile and I’ll tell you where you can shove your judgement.
Inside a whole raw onion before shoving that up your ass
It’s not even the taste, it’s the texture.
I add onion powder to everything. Can’t stand actual onions tho.
What texture, though?
Genuine question–onions can be anywhere from a very crunchy vegetable texture to a thick paste depending on how they’re cooked. Do you have a problem with that whole range?
I’m 35 years old and I’ve never come across an onion with a texture I liked.
Go on
who are these people? can we get them isolated from our community?
YES PLEASE
Garlic
My sister made guacamole and wanted me to test it. I asked how much garlic it has and she said she never puts garlic in it. I could only convince her to put a tiny bit in but I would’ve easily doubled it.
who puts garlic in guac? when i add garlic to anything it needs at least 3 cloves per clove but like the best guac is avocado, tomato, onion, salt, chili (usually anaheim) and a splash of lime
Garlic in guacamole is good. Put lime juice over your raw garlic and let it sit and mellow out.
i don’t doubt your first statement. i don’t doubt your second statement. i just kinda doubt them together. who the hell wants mellow garlic. if i’m eating one fry it needs 3 cloves on it
Yes, please. I’ll have them the same way Ron Swanson haves his eggs and bacon for breakfast:
never watched this show but seen plenty of clips. Isn’t he just a male Karen?
Nah, he’s a grumpy but kind libertarian (ACTUAL non-hypocrite libertarian who just wants to be left alone without hurting anyone and be self-sufficient, not the RL GOP kind) with three ex-wives all named Tammy and a significant fortune in gold buried somewhere.
Of the many things he is, a Karen is thoroughly not one.
oh fair enough – that gif makes him look a bit entitled, but I guess he’s a paying customer and is just asking to be served what he’s willing to pay for
that gif makes him look a bit entitled
Yeah, I can see how it could be interpreted that way out of context, but in context it’s a joke about how he has very old-fashioned breakfast habits, dialed up to 11 for increased hilarity 😁
“could you seat me next to the kitchen where i can smell the griddle” is something i’ve said and something i can see him saying, even though we are nothing alike. wait fuck i’m duke silver
I absolutely despise peppers, but onions are my JAM
Exactly!
Thank you.
I made a conscious decision in my mid-20s to stop being so picky.
Best decision I’ve ever made. No regrets, at all. There is so much to discover in the world. Why would you limit yourself?
I really feel like some people cling to listing the foods they don’t like as some unique part of their personality. Like they picked it at their character selection screen and they’re sticking with it.
Yeah, I used to have the mindset that either I loved or hated foods and would only want the ones I loved. But eventually, I realized that there’s a middle category of foods that I don’t go crazy for but aren’t bad, plus two reasons to revisit the ones that I still didn’t like: good cooking can make almost any food delicious, and tastes change as you age (and/or nutrition needs vary).
I have trouble respecting picky eaters after that. As long as your body isn’t trying to reject the food entirely (and I do understand that some people’s bodies will reject things that mine is fine with), it’s just sensations that you can get past. It’s a mental block that if you can get past it, you’ll eventually look back and wonder what was so hard about it.
Though my mindset plays a role. I like novelty more than familiarity (though ironically I don’t think we test our new things enough to really determine their safety… I like the new stuff but also side-eye it).
I’m knocking on the door of 60. There’s three things I don’t like and one I wouldn’t try.
I don’t like broad beans (aka fava beans), Brussels sprouts, or peas. One of the best things about being an adult is being able to say ‘No, thanks’. I try them again every few years, just to check. With peas and sprouts I still hate the taste horribly. Broad beans can taste alright but have to be properly prepared and cooked and it’s just easier to say no because when they’re not right they’re the thing I dislike the most.
The one thing I wouldn’t try would be balut. The idea just makes my skin crawl for some reason.
I had balut in the Philippines when I visited around 2008.
Not my favorite thing to eat, but I could see how some people like it.
If you ever get to the Philippines give it a try! Ask for the “young” balut so it’s more like an egg and less like a baby duck.
And yeah, almost all beans have to be prepared right to be good. If it’s just mush then it’s overcooked.
If you ever get to the Philippines give it a try! Ask for the “young” balut so it’s more like an egg and less like a baby duck.
No thanks!
Hey you can defend onions and peppers without slandering corn.
I could but I don’t want to
And that is why you must perish.
I’m with you OP. It’s an IBS nightmare. I’ll have it popped but that’s just because it’s so convenient of a snack and not too bad health wise.
oh gods. i remember when i still had a digestive tract, before it was removed but after it went all manky, eating popcorn was just asking for the jackson pollock shits. that shit scraped EVERYTHING out
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God, sometimes I might as well say frag out! when eating corn. Blows me tf up
I avoided onions and peppers when I was younger because I was a picky ass eater.
Now I avoid onions because I realized I can’t properly digest them and the make my tummy sad.
This is my story except with cheese.
Why did I have to start enjoying the taste of cheese?
I was a picky ass eater.
That’s something we should all be picky about.
A little corn kernel around the rim never hurt nobody
A corn kernel around the onion ring
Don’t kink shame, its only smellz
Schmalz
They’re talking about having standards
My partner’s in the same boat.
What’s wicked sad is he loves garlic but it doesn’t love him. He can have garlic oil but that’s about it (something to do with FODMAPs).
Might want to also try powers, cooking the shit out of the alliums, or cooking with the bulbs then removing the bulbs before serving. Get the flavor without the high FODMAP fructans.
I’m also trying to see what I can do to build back the gut bacteria which would normally process that stuff correctly. Probiotics + slowly reintroducing the alliums over a long period of time.
:(
Caramelized onions are soooo tasty!
Don’t get me wrong, I love onions as an adult. That said, I had a procedure a few years that fucked my ability to digest allium.
I’m trying to eat fist fulls of probiotics to see if I can get back in the game.
If it’s the oligosaccharides or fructans that are fucking you up, you can heat (not fry) onions in however much oil you’re okay with in your final dish, and then just remove the onions. The flavor compounds are oil soluble, but the oligosaccharides/fructans aren’t. Smaller pieces = more intense onion flavor.
Yeah, I’ve been experimenting with that as a solution. I can also mildly tolerate them if they’re cooked high hell or used as a powder. The more raw it is, the harder it is to digest.
If I can dial the fructans down, I do a lot better.
Fingers crossed for you finding a solution that lets you get all the onion you want! Intestinal issues are so miserable
This was such a delightful comment chain! Equal parts pleasant and informative.
Indeed! TIL! I am going to do the fine chop on the onions for cooking and see how much more flavor I can get out of them.
You can keep heating them slowly and caramelizing them until they turn in a jam … that’s how good onions are.
Or you could dehydrate them and use the crusty bits like bacon bits on all sorts of food.
I always find it strange to hear people say they don’t like onions … I keep a large stock of onions in my kitchen all the time because they go into just about every recipe and you can cook, fry, bake or use them raw in all sorts of things.
I don’t mind the flavor but I hate that I’m an onion/garlic sweater. For days after eating garlic or most onions, I stink so badly no perfume or deodorant or antiperspirant can control it. As a girl growing up, it was a real problem, and once I was old enough to do my own cooking I started leaving them out, or using sweet onions when they were too important to exclude.
I’m also capsaicin-sensitive, like major ass-bleeding bad, so I minimize spicy peppers and use bell peppers plus black pepper/wasabi/horseradish/ginger for spice. If it’s not my cooking I get “Mild” and do the best I can with it.
Interesting then that wasabi or horseradish doesn’t affect you in similar ways.
Yes, different chemicals
I’ll eat them every once in awhile. I’ll want to kill myself for like two or three days for it, but I’ll still eat them.
A lot of people who are super tasters find alliums like onions and garlic incredibly overpowering unless they are in really small amounts.
I was thinking to myself that it can’t be that many people, but sure enough I was wrong and was surprised to learn the following from the Wikipedia article about super-tasters:
“Research suggests 25% of the population are non-tasters, 50% are medium tasters, and 25% are supertasters.”
Quite interesting and concise page, recommended. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster
That article is wild to me. I consider myself a super taster and smeller. The list of foods super taster’s avoid is basically a list of my favorite flavors. Maybe I’m just a slightly above average taster?
Most of the list is true for me. All seltzers are disgusting due to the presence of Bitter 2 which makes them undrinkably gross. Diet soda works extremely well and tastes great. Beer, wine, coffee, and unsweetened tea are pretty awful. Savory deliciousness is magnified and a fantastic steak (medium rare to medium) will knock the soul out of my body. Cheese and spicy food is life and I eat spicier stuff than anyone I know. Onion powder and garlic salt are vastly preferable to the actual full vegetable. Dark chocolate is repulsive. Pineapple is godlike, melons are foul. Cucumber smells so bad I will flee a room to avoid it but a pickle spear is decent. Just a window into how my tastes work.
Onions I can to like thanks to guacamole. Never got to like bell peppers. I can tolerate most of them, but green is a no-go.
Green are terrible, but red are juicy and delicious
All bell peppers taste the same to me.
They pretty much do taste the same. The red, orange and yellow are great to add to salads for a touch of color.
Yeah I don’t get this. I’ve met people who say they don’t like green bell peppers. Like they all taste the same lol.
The different colors are how ripe they are. Green peppers are the least ripe and have a different taste because of it.
Yeah, that taste overpowers anything else in a dish for me. In some dishes, I can takes it, but I’m really sensitive to it.
The taste of green bell peppers is so inoffensive that it’s kind of amazing to me that there are people who specifically can’t eat them
Well, it’s all subjective, of course. For me, if there’s the smallest amount in a dish, it will overpower everything else in the dish. A very little bit goes a very long way for my taste buds. So if someone were cooking with the “holy trinity,” they can probably cut the bell peppers by a ⅔ to 3/5 if they’re using the green ones.
That’s me.
I also have many more things I don’t like that may trigger you
I was and still am a very picky eater. I’ve started cooking for myself and have become dramatically less picky. However, I’m still not a fan of raw onion. I almost like them more the more they are cooked. I don’t like raw onion, but I love caramelized onion. I guess it’s really I just don’t like the texture of raw onion.
Cooking gets rid of a lot of the acidity, so could be that in addition to texture.
Onions and mushrooms are the two things I can have with pretty much every meal.
Or when you got wicked GERD but those fajitas come out sizzlin
GERD… ugh.
Got a horror story and a triumph regarding that.
One of my oldest friends had GERD something terrible.
Had a bleeding ulcer from it that nearly killed her at one point.
Was put on Aciphex but it gave her terrible diarrhea with the hot shits regardless, so I suggested she try a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar after each meal. Goes down thermonuclear hot for 10 seconds or so but eases up quite fast.
It seems counter-intuitive, but vinegar is a digestive, in that it aids digestion by being an acid base, and it also tempers the acid pumps in the stomach because again, it IS an acid, so they produce less.
She was off the Aciphex inside of three weeks. Hot shits… gone.
For general stomach soothing, I put a capful of Braggs apple cider vinegar into a cup of water before bed. It makes the water spry and slightly tangy. Works a charm for my stomach - esp when I eat out.
Vinegar is the best!
